Residual Error: Volume 1

for Half-Life 2

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

The player starts the mod with no clear objective or goal. By trial and error the player eventually finds access to a suit room where they don a Combine Elite suit. Again, through trial and error testing doors and forcefields the player makes their way to the surface only to find Zombies, Combine AND rebels against them.

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Total Downloads: 09th December 2007
40 Comments and 19 recommendations, 8 say "Play It Now!"

Escape DD

for Half-Life 2

Author’s Note “Escape is a level created using Half-Life 2. The player attempts to recover the gravity gun, which has been stolen by the Combine forces, and then escape from the Combine facility where he has been trapped. It won’t be easy because puzzles must be solved and enemies must be defeated in order to… Read More

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Total Downloads: 9946th December 2007
5 Comments and 4 recommendations, 1 say "Play It Now!"

Text Interview with Germano Guerrini

A while ago a mod was released called Riot Act and it was warmly received.

I contacted the author and requested an interview. Like all people who are good at something, he was quite busy and we only recently found the time to chat about the mod and some other stuff.


30th November 2007 10 Comments

Zombie Street

for Half-Life 2

About “The player begins in a hotel lobby looking out into a street filled with zombies. When playing Half-Life 2 I felt the most enjoyable gameplay was destroying zombies with various physics objects. In my final Directed Focus Study I designed a map with this gameplay as the entire focus.” Reader Recommendations Avoid It! Think… Read More

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Total Downloads: 88629th November 2007
7 Comments and 5 recommendations, 1 say "Play It Now!"

Resistor

for Half-Life 2

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

A small to medium mod with the player in the role of a Metrocop. Your objective? Escape from the base after all the Combine turn against you. You start with a four-person squad and face mostly other Metrocops.

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Total Downloads: 1,41617th November 2007
33 Comments and 23 recommendations, 10 say "Play It Now!"

Survivors

for Half-Life

About You start the game with a group of survivors who have barricaded themselves in. Work your way through the corridors until you meet…. Wait and see. Reader Recommendations Avoid It! Think Twice Maybe Play It Later Play It Now! 8 recommendations, average score: 2.75 (out of 5), standard deviation: 0.19 (what's that?)

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Total Downloads: 1,0664th November 2007
23 Comments and 8 recommendations, most say "Maybe?"

Chained Together

About We value freedom when playing games. That’s why if a developer can remove the illusion of a level being a linear game it is often considered good. (I disagree, but that’s for another post!). What if a game developer took a different approach and said “The player is going to have much less control… Read More


3rd November 2007 5 Comments

Dog and Gaming Years

About There’s an interesting article on Gamasutra called The Gamasutra Quantum Leap Awards: First-Person Shooters. The article was published in September 2006, but is still relevant today. The site requires free registration but if you are interested in game development it’s well worth the effort.


3rd November 2007 No Comments

Operation Krautsalat

for Half-Life

About There doesn’t seem to be a background story but the situation seems clear. Enter a secret base/lab and kill everything you find. Not very original but still fun. Basic Details Title: Operation Krautsalat File Name: hl1-sp-operation-krautsalat-1.1.7z Original File Name: operation_krautsalat_1_1.exe Size : 24.2Mb Author: Ragman Date Released: 22 September 2007 PlanetPhillip Download Servers PlanetPhillip.Com… Read More

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Total Downloads: 1,4313rd November 2007
18 Comments and 10 recommendations, most say "Maybe?"